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A review by kaz9
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
3.0
Neither loved nor hated this. I liked the fact that the author decided to imagine the actual point of apocolypse rather than setting the whole thing deep in the aftermath, shrouded in a kind of mystical amnesia, which a lot of post-apocolyptic novels do. She really makes you feel what it must be like to watch everything fall apart.
None of the characters felt quite developed enough for me. I wanted to know Kirsten better - she was interesting in theory - but without any knowledge of how she came to be the knife-throwing survivalist she is, it's hard to really feel for her. Arthur and and Miranda's love seemed to come and go without much reason. The whole thing felt like a newspaper report on the subject of a relationship, which on some level maybe it was.
To sum it up, I loved the world she built, but the people in it didn't quite grab me.
None of the characters felt quite developed enough for me. I wanted to know Kirsten better - she was interesting in theory - but without any knowledge of how she came to be the knife-throwing survivalist she is, it's hard to really feel for her. Arthur and and Miranda's love seemed to come and go without much reason. The whole thing felt like a newspaper report on the subject of a relationship, which on some level maybe it was.
To sum it up, I loved the world she built, but the people in it didn't quite grab me.